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• Did Mom Just Come Out To Her Queer Kids?

  08-08-2018 23:58 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageMy brother (gay) and I (pan) have long suspected our mom might fall somewhere on the queer spectrum. Yesterday she said "we" and "us" in reference to queer humans. I didn't say anything because my brain couldn't process quickly enough. But, did my mom just come out? Do we follow up? Was this an invitation to ask questions? Or just a show of solidarity for her queer kids?Did Mom Out Herself?
  The one acronym that rules includes us all—LGBTQIA and its many metastasizing variation
  
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• EPA reconsiders Washington state’s contentious water rules

  08-08-2018 23:18
  SEATTLE — The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering water-quality standards it approved for Washington state two years ago, taking up a review requested by industry groups. In November 2016, the EPA finalized water-quality standards for the state tied partly to how much fish people eat. The EPA approved some aspects of the state’s plan but […]
  
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• Pierce County prosecutor trails former chief deputy in primary, setting stage for tough general election campaign

  08-08-2018 23:11
  The result, an ominous sign for Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, suggests the hard-fought campaign will get nastier between now and November.
  
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• As the Blue Wave Builds, Trump "Thought Leaders" Turn Against QAnon Conspiracy Theory. Why???

  08-08-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 161by The StrangerEpisode 161 talks about Tuesday's primary and special election results, a conservative fight over QAnon, and the must-see movie Dark Money. Scott Olson / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!The “blue wave” came through Blabbermouth's home state on Tuesday, and Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders talk about what happened — including some drama Rich got into with local Republicans trying to pull a
  
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• In BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Tries to Do… a Lot

  08-08-2018 22:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by David F. Walker
  Based on retired police detective Ron Stallworth’s 2014 memoir Black Klansman, director Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman stars John David Washington (son of Denzel Washington) as the first Black cop on the Colorado Springs police department in the early 1970s.
  Stuck in a thankless position in the evidence room and surrounded by fellow officers who do little to hide their racism, Stallworth longs for something with a bit more action. He’s given an undercover assignm
  
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• Colorado college reprinting up to 9.2K diplomas to fix typo

  08-08-2018 22:19
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado university is offering to reprint up to 9,200 diplomas after the outgoing editor of the school newspaper found a big typo. Alec Williams was checking to make sure his name was spelled correctly on his Colorado Mesa University diploma when he noticed it said “Coard of Trustees” instead […]
  
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• Finally, People Are Talking About Climate Change. But Is It Too Late?

  08-08-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Jodi Jacobson/GettySomething strange is happening in America right now: People are talking about climate change.Before The Stranger saved and then quickly crushed my body, mind, and spirit, I worked for Grist, the Seattle-based online magazine with a focus on climate change. (Apropos of nothing, Grist unceremoniously booted me and four out of five of the staff writers a few days after Donald Trump took office, but I'm not bitter. Really. The office was always freezing and it's go
  
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• The Secret Token Exposes the Mythology of the Roanoke Colony

  08-08-2018 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Andrew Lawler outlines the history, disappearance, and the eventual mythologizing of the Roanoke colony in his new book The Secret Token.by Joe StreckertIn 1587, 115 colonists established England’s first small colony of the Americas on Roanoke—a swampy, coastal island that would eventually be considered part of North Carolina. The governor of the colony, John White, returned to England shortly after. Three years later, he returned to find the colony gone. There was nothing: no corpse
  
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• The Furthest Corners of the Hall & Oates Universe

  08-08-2018 21:42 via thestranger.com
  Nine songs the iconic duo should play on their current tour.by Robert HamNo one goes to see Hall & Oates to hear deep cuts and rarities. Hell, no one wants to hear anything the Philly duo has recorded post-1985. You’re there for the hits, the classics, the canonical pop standards that make you strain for falsetto notes you can’t reach and dance like you’re in a Wellbutrin commercial. But if I, a noted scholar of the H&O Extended Universe, were to put together the set li
  
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• That Summer, a Doc For Those Who Can't Get Enough of Grey Gardens

  08-08-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Those who can't get enough of the Beales are likely to feel as if they've discovered a long-lost family photo album.by Kathy Fennessy
  Once upon a time, Grey Gardens was like a dark, tantalizing secret shared among friends. It's not that the filmmakers, Albert and David Maysles (Salesman, Gimme Shelter), were unknown, or that their subjects, Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, weren't of historical interest, but there was a certain air of disrepute to the whole affair.Unlike their other direct-cin
  
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• Trump team blames wildfires on environmentalists, sparking a backlash

  08-08-2018 21:38
  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are echoing the president in blaming this year's damaging fire season on environmentalists and their policies.
  
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• Mayor Durkan Is Hell-Bent on Killing the Center City Connector

  08-08-2018 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by David ColeFuture corridor of the Center City Connector. For Mayor Durkan, no lie is too big in order to stop the project. DAVID COLE
  This past spring I compared Mayor Durkan’s decisionto “pause” the Center City Connector with a similar idiotic decision by Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley in 2013.
  Upon due reflection, I owe the mayor an apology—Mayor Cranley, that is. Jenny Durkan has proven herself to be far more dishonest and conniving than John Cranley could ever hope t
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Aquatic Blissout of "High Tide" by Former Seattle Ambient-Music Producer Jake Muir

  08-08-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Former Seattle producer Jake Muir rides a new wave of aquatic ambient music on the deeply peaceful "High Tide."by Dave SegalThe beat(ification) goes on. Patricia Castaneda
  Jake Muir droned and zoned briefly and brightly in Seattle's experimental-electronic-music underground for a few years before heading down to LA in early 2018 to try to get into the soundtrack/sound-design game. Before that, though, he released a strong LP on Further Records, Muara (2016), under the Monadh alias and another to
  
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• Famed California research center settles 2 gender bias suits

  08-08-2018 20:17
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Southern California has settled two of three gender discrimination lawsuits filed by top female scientists. The renowned research center and two former plaintiffs, Kathy Jones and Vicki Lundblad, said in a statement Tuesday that they’ve agreed to “put our disagreements behind” and “move forward […]
  
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• Counterpoint: I Don’t Hate Pineapple Pizza, Because It's Pizza

  08-08-2018 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkI am so hungry right now.isuaneye/GettyAfter reading Mudede’s rant against pineapple pizza, I can’t stop thinking about pineapple pizza.
  Maybe it’s because I’m gluten-free and don’t eat much pizza anymore, and maybe it’s because of this fact that, after feeling pretty indifferent towards pizza before becoming GF, then becoming obsessed with it because I couldn’t eat it anymore, I want all pizzas. Like, every time I see someone walking down
  
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• Washington’s biggest wildfire spreads, forces mandatory evacuations

  08-08-2018 19:25
  The fire is expected to continue growing over the next few days as temperatures rise into the triple digits.
  
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• Mandatory evacuations for wildfire near Entiat

  08-08-2018 19:25
  The fire is expected to continue growing over the next few days as temperatures rise into the triple digits.
  
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• Boring Report: New Machines on the Scene

  08-08-2018 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleIn the last week of July, I got home from work and this blue thing, seen above, had appeared onsite. CF
  If you're not familiar with Boring Report, um, not a lot happens. You can get caught up on Boring Report here.Anyway, the blue thing. What is it? A slingshot? A crane?Even by the light of day the next morning, I could not tell. CF
  Whatever it is, it looked ready to work. Eager.Okay, maybe not quite as eager as that trackhoe.*Later on the scene: more things. CF
  A day or
  
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• Today's the Deadline for Submitting Your Events for the Fall 2018 Seattle Art and Performance

  08-08-2018 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe deadline for the fall edition is today!
  Though we hate to admit it, summer—and all of its opportunities to soak up the sun at outdoor events—will end someday. But that's not all bad news: Fall will also bring with it a brand new crop of arts events, along with our fall edition of Seattle Art and Performance (coming out on September 12) to guide you through all of them.
  If you have an event you'd like to see included, we need to know about it today.
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• Required Viewing & ICYMI: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speech at Netroots Nation

  08-08-2018 19:06 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
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• ‘Considerable fog’ complicates search for ailing orca J50

  08-08-2018 19:00
  If J50 is found Wednesday, officials will seek to assess her health and possibly administer medicine.
  
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• Oregon man, 82, rebounds physically after years-long abuse

  08-08-2018 18:54
  MEDFORD, Ore. — Gary Bossingham of Medford has little left to his name after the years-long abuse he endured from a woman who was neither friend nor family. But as he laughs and flexes a muscle with the son his convicted abuser once told him had died, Bossingham now lives a life surrounded by love. […]
  
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• Rescuers free man trapped under truck for at least 2 days

  08-08-2018 18:53
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man is recovering after being pinned underneath his truck for at least two days after it rolled into a ravine. Joe Rightmire’s sister, Tasha Goforth, found the 21-year-old pinned under the pickup near Idaho Falls on Monday night after he had been missing for several days. Idaho Falls […]
  
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• PSA: Seriously, Stop Lighting Things on Fire!!!

  08-08-2018 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Add this fire to the ever-growing list of fires.by Nathalie Graham NG
  There’s a white semi-truck parked on Harvard Street behind the Pike and Broadway QFC that was lit on fire at about 8:30 a.m. this morning, according to the Seattle Fire Department.The innards of the truck are all ash, the hatch and the roof are now just smoldering remains. Two firefighters work with axes to extinguish any remaining flames on the inside of the truck. Other firefighters are coiling up a firehose that&rsquo
  
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• New Mexico gov hopefuls vow to help Trinity Test descendants

  08-08-2018 18:17
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates say want descendants of families who lived the Trinity Test to receive compensation from the U.S. government. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Rep. Steve Pearce, who currently both serve in the U.S. House of Representative, said this week they will continue as governor to […]
  
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• Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard on Why the Showbox Should Be Saved

  08-08-2018 18:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Why has Deathcab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard become such an outspoken supporter for protecting the Showbox Theater?by Lester BlackBen Gibbard at City Council chambers on Monday waiting to give public comment. Lester Black
  Ben Gibbard has played nearly 25 shows at the Showbox theater, mostly with his band Death Cab for Cutie, but he didn’t skip a beat when I asked him what was his most memorable experience at the historic venue.It was a run of three shows in 2004 just after Death Cab for Cutie&
  
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• Yakima Valley under air-quality alert as wildfires spread smoke

  08-08-2018 18:04
  An air-quality alert is in effect through 10 a.m. Friday in the Yakima Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• UNC health textbook ditches claims about cancer, Holocaust

  08-08-2018 17:33
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has revised a textbook for a required fitness course that called cancer “a disease of choice” and included a theory asserting Holocaust victims failed to tap into their inner strength. The university released a statement saying revisions to “21st Century Fitness” began in spring, […]
  
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• What You Need to Know About Last Night's Primary Election Results in Washington State

  08-08-2018 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  It was a good night for Democrats in Washington State.by Heidi GrooverHe quoted a Stranger article even after his party tried to refuse The Stranger entry to their election night event. the stranger
  It was a big night for Democrats across Washington, though at least one race remains too close to call. Here are a few takeaways from Tuesday’s primary election:
  WE CAN’T SAY FOR SURE WHO’LL FACE DINO ROSSI IN THE 8TH
  The only thing we really know for sure about the race in Washingt
  
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• What You Need to Know About Last Night's Primary Election Results

  08-08-2018 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  It was a good night for Democrats in Washington State.by Heidi GrooverHe quoted a Stranger article even after his party tried to refuse The Stranger entry to their election night event. the stranger
  It was a big night for Democrats across Washington, though at least one race remains too close to call. Here are a few takeaways from Tuesday’s primary election:
  WE CAN’T SAY FOR SURE WHO’LL FACE DINO ROSSI IN THE 8TH
  The only thing we really know for sure about the race in Washingt
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Farmers Sweat New Chinese Tariffs, Man With Fake Charities Sued by Bob Ferguson, What's Up With Canada and Saudi Arabia?

  08-08-2018 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Amazon capitalizes on convenience, Rep. Collins indicted, election nightby Nathalie GrahamSaudi Arabia puts Canada on blast for its human rights violations... wait.studio-laska / Getty Images
  China’s retaliatory tariffs are no good for Washington farmers: The farmers are anxious. Over $480 million worth of Washington agricultural exports are impacted by Chinese tariffs, reports KING5. China struck back against Trump’s latest tariffs. It slapped $16 million of tariffs on American good
  
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• Olympic National Park, forests, impose fire restrictions

  08-08-2018 16:48
  PORT ANGELES — Fire restrictions go into effect Wednesday at Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The Olympian reports the coastal areas of Olympic National Forest are also included in the restricted zone. Campfires will be allowed only at developed campgrounds, picnic areas and rental cabins with cement or metal […]
  
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• NRA, Second Amendment Foundation sue Edmonds over gun-storage law

  08-08-2018 16:12
  Under the Edmonds ordinance, gun owners face fines of as much as $10,000 for not keeping guns locked up safely.
  
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• Washington AG sues New York man, says he set up bogus charities here

  08-08-2018 15:28
  The 60-year-old man, is accused of setting up six fake nonprofits here, and establishing similar bogus charities in eight other states, all using variations on the names for the United Way, the American Cancer Society and the American Red Cross, according to the state's lawsuit.
  
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• Seattle mayor responds to Showbox preservation campaign, sends reps to meet with developer

  08-08-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan is signaling sympathy for the cause of saving the Showbox but is not ready to support legislation from City Councilmember Kshama Sawant to protect the music hall for at least two years by temporarily expanding the Pike Place Market Historic District.
  
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• Poland: Activists protest use of pesticide harmful to bees

  08-08-2018 14:55
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Environmentalists and beekeepers in Poland have staged a protest against the government’s authorization of a class of pesticides that the European Union says poses a serious risk to bees. Poland’s Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday the temporary permission it gave for the use of neonicotinoids on oilseed rape fields was a response […]
  
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• Red-hot voyage to sun will bring us closer to our star

  08-08-2018 14:34
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A red-hot voyage to the sun is going to bring us closer to our star than ever before. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun, hurtling through the sizzling solar atmosphere and coming within just 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the surface. […]
  
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• Watch with us: Tomorrow, state officials may approve a second for-profit private school in King County

  08-08-2018 14:00
  A nationwide for-profit, private secondary-school chain is seeking approval for a campus in Bellevue. State officials will decide on this and other issues during the State Board of Education meeting Aug. 9.
  
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• Battling 18 blazes, California may face worst fire season

  08-08-2018 08:00
  Some 14,000 firefighters from as far away as Florida and New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 fires in the midst of a sweltering summer that has seen wind-whipped flames carve their way through national forest land and rural areas, threaten urban areas and incinerate neighborhoods.
  
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• GOP tsunami sirens should be sounding as the blue wave arrives

  08-08-2018 07:18
  Donald Trump is now officially hanging around the necks of Republicans here, whether they like it or not. Voters gave the GOP a thrashing in our state’s primary Tuesday, one that reverberated all the way down the ballot.
  
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• Saving the orcas: meetings, meetings and more meetings

  08-08-2018 05:45
  Meetings and more meetings. Comments and more comments. Welcome to the Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force that’s to come up with policy recommendations to help the distressed orcas.
  
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• Washington state primary election: GOP’s McMorris Rodgers, Herrera Beutler face tight races in November

  08-08-2018 05:44
  Republican House members Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler are looking at tough general elections as each had less than half the vote on primary night. It was a good primary night for Washington state's Democrats, as all six incumbent House members had healthy leads.
  
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• In 8th District, Dino Rossi advances; Kim Schrier, Jason Rittereiser lead Democrats

  08-08-2018 05:30
  Rossi, who has lost three high-profile statewide elections in the last decade-and-a-half, advanced easily in Tuesday’s 8th Congressional District primary. His Democratic opponent this fall remains to be determined.
  
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• King County Automated Fingerprint Identification System levy passing in first-day returns

  08-08-2018 05:28
  The property tax-funded levy has been renewed by voters five times since 1986. It funds a centralized fingerprint-identification system maintained by the King County Sheriff’s Office and used by regional law enforcement.
  
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• U.S. Senate: Democrat Maria Cantwell to face Republican Susan Hutchison

  08-08-2018 05:21
  Cantwell was leading 28 primary-election challengers in Tuesday returns with 55 percent, while Hutchison was running second with 24 percent.
  
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• U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell crushes competition, will face Susan Hutchison in November

  08-08-2018 05:21
  Cantwell was leading 28 primary-election challengers in Tuesday returns with 55 percent, while Hutchison was running second with 24 percent.
  
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• One dead in head-on crash on Highway 18 involving wrong-way SUV

  08-08-2018 04:37
  The driver of an Acura TL died when he was driving Westbound and was hit front first by a Honda Pilot going Eastbound on the Westbound lane.
  
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• King County fined $118,500 for sewer-overflow violations

  08-08-2018 04:08
  Since 2013, both King County and the City of Seattle have been subject to consent decrees with the Environmental Protection Agency and state ecology department over sewage discharge.
  
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• Primary Election Night 2018! We're Partying With Congressional Candidates and State Legislators

  08-08-2018 03:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Pretty fuckt but still definitely working, Dan!!!!by Stranger Election Control BoardSobering up from our dabs with a nice IPA.
  WE ARRIVED TOO EARLY TO JOE NGUYEN'S PARTY BUT THIS IPA IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR HIGH MOUTHS NEEDED
  6:27 PM
  The SECB thinks this Hazy IPA from Skookum tastes like guava and melons and is happy they got assigned to a party at a taproom. They wanted to ask State Sen. Candidate Joe Nguyen if he thought this IPA was fucking delicious or fucking wack but turns out we showed up an
  
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• 10 Pearl Jam Events in Seattle This Week—Besides the Home Shows

  08-08-2018 02:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSee photos like this at MoPOP's Home and Away exhibit, opening Saturday.Danny Clinch
  Whether or not you were ever into grunge, the fact remains that Pearl Jam are an irrevocable part of Seattle’s local culture. On August 8 and 10, they’ll return home to play their first Seattle shows in five years at Safeco Field, in a giant charitable push to fight local homelessness. Both shows are, of course, sold out, but the band has been working to set up other way
  
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